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Specialized orders
« on: December 24, 2014, 01:23:03 pm »

 Greetings fellow overlords.
 I think that military orders need to be more specialized. Like ordering marksdwarves to operate as snipers, or fire in volleys; or tell speardwarves to go into turtle formation, form a line with marksdwarves to defend a wall; or mixing different squads to ambush a caravan guerrilla style. Or melee soldiers hiding behind doors to ambush those who pass inside. Basically, instead of just assigning a target you would assign a formation/operating mode and then a target/kill all at proximity/kill a type of target.
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Or you could just let the children roam free and natural selection will take care of them.
I'm now picturing an elf wrestler trying to suplex my battlements.

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Re: Specialized orders
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2014, 02:07:58 pm »

Formations/tactics have been suggested a lot and I believe they are on the eventual development roadmap. All we can do is be patient.
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Re: Specialized orders
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2014, 02:08:23 pm »

Looking forward to that!
« Last Edit: December 24, 2014, 10:58:15 pm by AlexanderTheIncompetant »
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Or you could just let the children roam free and natural selection will take care of them.
I'm now picturing an elf wrestler trying to suplex my battlements.